NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats
Swati KhandelwalJul 24, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security…
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China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks
Swati KhandelwalJul 23, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx. The cluster has…
Chaos Ransomware Uses msaRAT to Route C2 Traffic Through Headless Chrome and Edge
The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim’s own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust implant behind it, found on…
Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes
A Russian state-supported espionage group spent months reading Western mailboxes through a then-unknown flaw in Zimbra’s webmail client. The payload goes after the last 90…
Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux…
Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS…
Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has…
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+…
Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user…
Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per…
Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA
Swati KhandelwalJul 22, 2026Law Enforcement / Cybercrime German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as…
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananJul 21, 2026Software Security / Artificial Intelligence Google’s DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI)…